New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-02

Ouesticncr-Will Mr. Merry vote for an altera-
ton Of the DccaloGuc?
Merry DAsi lie to tIcacherous friend-What the
IS that
Fricnd-Flogcing in the army.
Mcrry-I beg to say. if elected. will vote ana
indeed I will move for its total and Immediate
abolition
HAYWARD was at Constant inoplc in 1862, whence
he wrote as follows:
WAS very much struck with the Grand Vizicr
and Foreign Secretary. Fuad Pacha and Aail
Iacha who dncd with us one day, ana VINO or',ii,
wine AMI talked in perfect French IKE cul'Na'c"
Europeans Fuad had a great deal OF ialhc'sloh
ian fun, and out caIitally on the subject q
marriage The Sutanas' reading is confined To
French novels and their morals must be odd
do not know whether they are huiG INTO ohc DOS
pliors. but some of them do their best TO merit
it. Che of them bold Lady Bulwer she should take
La Dame aur (an,ciidS for her model ami on Lady
Rulwcr shaljns her head exclaimed "Quo, eiic
non bonnie femme ~
All thnrs considered IIayward's correspond g
with women forms the BRIGHTEST uart of the book.
n WAS his GOOD fortune 10 number am his init
mate fricn,s many Of the first female celebrities
of his time. Mrs. Norton Lady Duhcrln. Lady
ChAttclton. Lady CharlcNillc, Mrs. Gr0tc, Mis-.
Proctor, Lady Ialmcist II. Lazy Naidcgravc are
some of the dist ncuishcd pcrsomagcs III whose So
cicty he was familiar figure. We have already
seen Specimen Of the letters OF Mis-. FRO Der.
whose spirit and accomrl shmcnts have charmed
a long line Of men of letters, affairs ami fashion
The CORRESPONDENCE with the Hon Mrs. NORTON is
very fun ami confident ial. but IN the la1yS part
il exhibits rather less wit than enc mi"ht have cN-
Icdcd. IL was this brilliant woman VIII m the
enthusiast L. Frcnchman admired because she WIS
50 IS irtuous AMI abandoned yet the vi'acy
of most of the letters to Hayward is certainly
l,l i.,-e e liam, of
the anccdotc which Hayward applied DO Miss Mar
tincau. of the German "lumpine over the chairs
pour Sc fairc rif" When Mrs Norton, however.
was easy and earnest she admirable witness
her characterization Of Sanucl Rogers, which Hay
ward quoted in his review art iclc on the pet. The
sron est Of the letters PERHAPS arc from that re-
marlahlr women MIS- Crotc. who pronounccs her
judgments uIon books AMI authors with force AMI
Under cnd,nrc. IL have finished your art iclc on
Mcrimcc" she writes. II cot through il, but, !
am bound 10 say. not without running comment
of di>fIIst and c,uicmft NJ the diafolo co\comb
YOU havc slct,hcl 10 the Ii =. No: never
din ontcmpatc such - ruin. such wilful dis
fguIrmcni by bloacd self conccit Of IN originally
dnc sub Get aS this Gi-hy gifted coNcpmb of yours
Cynic j. too honest a dcSI .natlu for lam. Coy
combry pur ct simple Tcdominat"s IN all hc does
saws or prctcndS To think" She l. hardly moro
c,il toward II rru'c rc,ardn, him as a jomn'-
,st without principles who wrote for whoc' cr
would hire his Pen we have had SAMPLES Of
'hc literary iourn ynan ourselves and we know
ne physiology of the crcaturc II is crr,!ltablc To
Fn.li,p sod,tv that il scarcely finds lis way in'I
- dcc,G salon even ia these days Of raw mus
ca.iu. n.- tie snall >imuh MS furnished hS tac
lower I. lbcrs of ia" Press cans.' There AZ"
eel, comment, urOn Harriet Maith'au
90. . ID They are too Ion. To quote.